One of the easiest and most effective ways for companies to get involved with research at Carnegie Mellon is via Capstone projects. For companies with unique problems, Capstones ideally offer a fast and low-cost path to a dedicated research team. At the same time, it is often challenging to identify when a Capstone is appropriate, as well as to navigate the breadth of options available at CMU. To that end, this session is a crash course on Capstones at CMU. We will discuss:
As part of this session, we will dive deeper into three diverse Capstones at CMU (Product Management, Business Analytics, and Human-Computer Interaction), and hear directly from the heads of these programs:
Alan Montgomery, Professor and Program Head of the Master of Business Analytics
Brad Eiben, Executive Director of the Master of Product Management
Tuesday, June 29, 20211:30-2:30 p.m. EDTVirtual Program
All participants must register for this event. A Zoom login link will be provided before the virtual program in a confirmation email.
Register by Monday, June 28Questions? Contact ENAiBLE
Alan L. Montgomery received his Ph.D. and M.B.A. in Business from the University of Chicago in 1994. He is Professor of Marketing at the Tepper School of Business and has a courtesy appointment with the Machine Learning Department in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. Prof. Montgomery is also the Head of the Master of Science in Business Analytics program at Carnegie Mellon University. The main focus of his research is the application of analytical methods to solve marketing problems. Typically this work leverages his background in statistics, economics, and machine learning. His fields of interest include electronic commerce, retailing, and consumer financial decision-making. Some current research projects include measuring the impact of piracy on music and movie sales, dynamic user profiling using clickstream data, customization of pricing strategies to micro-markets, automated approaches to the analysis of sales data using Bayesian methods, and econometric approaches to consumer mental accounting. There are many ways to engage with Prof. Montgomery either directly on research projects or corporate sponsored student projects in business analytics.
Brad Eiben is the Executive Director of the MS in Product Management program at CMU. Before directing the program, Eiben taught HCI for Product Managers and was an adjunct advisor for the program’s Capstone projects.
Eiben has more than two decades of experience in manufacturing and product launch readiness, having held a variety of roles in a diverse set of corporate cultures. As a young engineer, Eiben earned new product launch experience during his time with Toyota Motor Manufacturing. With the data-driven problem solving foundation developed at Toyota, Eiben then moved to manage a cross-functional engineering team and portfolio of projects Pittsburgh-based MSA. After MSA, Eiben moved to project and operations roles at smaller companies in the electrical and semiconductor industries. In each of these roles, Eiben focused on building team-oriented cultures and initiated new product development and launch processes.
Eiben holds a bachelor of science in mechanical engineering from the University of Pittsburgh.
Skip Shelly is Associate Teaching Professor & Director of the Master of Human-Computer Interaction (MHCI) Program. Trained at the School of Design at Carnegie Mellon University, Skip is a design leader who has worked at the intersection of research, design, business and emerging technology at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI), MAYA, LotterShelly, Summa and CMU’s Human Computer Interaction Institute (HCII). His career coincides with the ascent of design and spans the introduction of personal computing, web, social, mobile, analytics, cloud, IoT and AI. Skip has consulted with hundreds of companies and civil agencies in healthcare, manufacturing, retail, supply chain management, medical devices, financial services, investment banking, education, research, robotics and start-ups.
Jessica Vogt is the Engagement Manager for the Human-Computer Interaction Institute. A veteran of the Institute, Jessica has spent 11 years building relationships with over 300 industry partners and the Carnegie Mellon University community. Her commitment to creating long term partnerships has resulted in engagements such as capstone project sponsorship, recruiting opportunities, guest lectures, sponsored research and executive education offerings. Jessica holds a PMP from the Project Management Institute, a Master of Arts in Corporate Communication from Duquesne University and a Bachelor of Arts in Communication & Dance from Mercyhurst University.